Thanks to all of you for joining us as well. Im kasie hunt, dont go anywhere, cnn this morning starts right now. Glad youre with us. Im pop bipy harlow and phil mattingly. Overnight the Israeli Military launching raids and ramping up airstrikes on gaza. The idf says troops are preparing for the, quote, next phase of the war. Take a look, this is video of the aftermath this morning. Sources tell cnn the u. S. Is urging israel to delay a Ground Assault in the hopes of getting more hostages out and humanitarian aid in for the millions of palestinians who are running out of food and water. But a senior israeli official tells cnn there will be no cease fire. The idf now says 222 people were kidnapped during the hamas attack and massacre just about two weeks ago. And israels president is now claiming one of the militants who was killed was Car Carrying Instructions on how to make Chemical Weapons. Lets go to erin burnett. Weve seen rhetoric and escalation. What is the latest . Reporter certa
Up to donald trump against torture. We have a very clear position on torture. We do not sanction torture. We do not get involved with that and will continue to be our position. And moments ago the Mexican President announcing that his meeting planned for next week with President Trump has been canceled. We are on the same page with the white house. How surprised are you every time there is a new tweet from the president . This is going to be an unconventional presidency, i think you know this by now casy. And i think we are going to see unconventional activities like tweets and thats just something we are all going to have to get used to. Good derek everyone. A busy day. Im Andrea Mitchell In Washington. President trump just arriving in philadelphia. You see Air Force One there. We are expecting his remarks to house and Senate Republicans later in this houn. He will go its about a 20 minute ride from that airport in South Philadelphia back into center city, where he is going to be meet
Necessary, yes. The president had effectively an extramarital affair slush fund. Then Scott Pruitts luxury trip to rome on the public dime. Lets have no illusions about what was really going on here. And what primary night in america looks like in the era of trump. Im basically trumpier than trump. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president and his lawyer are applying the same strategy that got the president elected, to his rapidly multiplying legal threats. Overwhelm the public with enough noise to drown out the facts and muddle the issues. Whether it can work this time is still an open question. The president today spent his morning executive time, as he so often does, tweeting about the criminal investigation into his campaign, his allies and his Family Members and himself. And this comes after the president s new personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, claimed in an interview over the weekend that the mueller team might try to set up the preside
Democrats of what is true, sounds like a political statement . 98 of what they did is the tradecraft, there is trade Craft Associated with analytics and that was followed. But just on that one piece about putins alleged preference for trump was not supported. Tucker ive never been clear on the underlying questions of all of this which is the hacking of the dnc servers and of john podesta as gmail account, and i asked the ranking democrat adam schiff about this and could not get a straight answer. Are we positive that the russian government was behind stealing that data . About as positive as you can be where it is very difficult, but i am comfortable believing that the russian government was behind the hackers that did all of this. Whether the entities were doing it word done about half of the russian government not on behalf, so i am comfortable making statement. Again, attribution is very the democrats have additional evidence, and they make reference to over and over that today hav
President or were going to let some foreign power do it. You know who has the right to elect the american president , the citizens of this country and no one else. Men and women have died on the battlefield to protect our democracy. The least we can do is show the courage to stand up tonight and do our part to protect our democracy. With that i yield back. Gentleman yields back. Does anyone else seek recognition on the amendment . Mr. Armstrong. Gentleman is recognized. And im going to go back to the actual language of the amendment and in particular the removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States. So at numerous points in times during todays debate have they my friends on other side of the aisle have held up a pocket constitution, waved it around. I think its interesting nobodys read from it yet and i think theres a reason for that. But im going to read from the constitution. You are joining our live coverage